Monday, November 5, 2007

Great books to re-read

My friend Jody at By the Nightlight wrote a post about books that you always enjoy, no matter how many times you read them.

I started to answer her in the comments section of her blog, but then it got so long that I had to write a separate post about it. I've listed a few recent favorites below... most of them are ones that have been published in the last ten years. For my favorite picture books when I was growing up, see this post.

Here's a short list of books that never get old:Peggy Rathmann's books: Goodnight Gorilla, Ten Minutes till Bedtime, and of course... Officer Buckle and Gloria.

Let me take this opportunity to say how incredibly adorable Jody's son is... and how lucky he is to have such a great mom. And I'm very sympathetic to constant re-readings of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Goodnight Moon. I have them memorized too. =)

hi Susan, Wow you're reading my blog---even I hadn't been reading it for the past three months (apologies to my sister who has been posting :)

Thanks for the post reply to my post. I have to get the Mo Willems books for Ari. I have a lot of credit at two bookstores so I am waiting to use it til Ari gets a bit older or til we have more space for books, whichever comes first :)

And thanks for the compliment re. Ari. Yes he is adorable. But then again I am a *bit* biased.